Francis
Ngannou has been officially pulled from UFC 215 after
the Las Vegas-based promotion was unable to find the rising
heavyweight star a new opponent on short notice.

MMAFighting.com first reported the news, and Ngannou is no
longer present on the UFC 215 event page on the Las Vegas-based
organization’s website.

Ngannou was scheduled to face Junior dos
Santos on the pay-per-view main card of the Sept. 9 event but
that pairing fell through when “Cigano” was pulled from the card
for a possible anti-doping violation a little more than a week ago.
The UFC announced it was seeking a replacement foe for Ngannou, and
“The Predator”
attempted to jumpstart things himself by calling out Alistair
Overeem, but nothing came to fruition.

The 30-year-old Ngannou is currently riding a nine-fight winning
streak. Five of those triumphs have occurred in UFC competition,
with each victory ending inside of two rounds. Most recently, “The
Predator” scored a first-round TKO of Andrei
Arlovski at UFC on Fox 23.